Current Sociology
Sociologist of the Month
‘Sociologist of the Month’ campaigns are monthly campaigns on social media initiated in 2015 to highlight the work of different sociologists from around the world, both established and more junior, who have published with Current Sociology. During the period of their feature, their article is available as free access. This is one way among others to draw attention to the work of diverse sociologists and promote sociology more generally.
March 2026
Suraj Milind Yengde, USA
Race and caste in the making of US sociology, Current Sociology, first published September 22, 2024
February 2026
Margaretha Järvinen (with Nanna Mik Meyer), Denmark
Giving and receiving: Gendered service work in academia, Current Sociology, first published January 17, 2024
January 2026
Dragos M Obreja (with Razvan Rughinis and Daniel Rosner), Romania
Examining distrust of science and scientists: A study on ideology and scientific literacy in the European Union, Current Sociology, first published November 14, 2023
December 2025
Anna Clot-Garrell, Spain
Voices of emergency: Imagined climate futures and forms of collective action, Current Sociology, first published June 25, 2023
November 2025
Julia Cook (with David Farrugia, Kate Senior, Steven Threadgold, Julia Coffey, Kate Davies, Adriana Haro and Barrie Shannon), Australia
Youth and the consumption of credit, Current Sociology, first published August 5, 2022
October 2025
Paro Mishra (with Ravinder Kaur, Shambhawi Vikram and Prashastika Sharma), India
Femtech apps and quantification of the reproductive body in India: Issues and concerns, Current Sociology, first published November 3, 2023
September 2025
Mariana Aldrete, Spain
Challenging the protest paradigm and winning legitimacy. Analysis of the representation of the social movement against femicide in the mainstream media in Mexico, Current Sociology, first published November 14, 2023
August 2025
Daniel Nehring, UK and Anja Röcke, Germany
Self-optimisation: Conceptual, discursive and historical perspective, Current Sociology, first published January 12, 2023
July 2025
Madeleine Geibel, Farida Fozdar and Fiona McGaughey, Australia
‘No way. You will not make [insert country here] home’: Anti-asylum discursive transfer from Australia to Europe, Current Sociology, first published August 25, 2023
June 2025
Zhang Jingting and Jia Chao, China
Tragedy does not die: Creativity, emotions, and metaphor of revolution in the context of Chinese Revolutionary Drama, Current Sociology, first published August 23, 2023
May 2025
Suvi Salmenniemi and Hanna Ylöstalo, Finland
Everyday utopias and social reproduction, Current Sociology, first published August 10, 2023
April 2025
Sónia Bernardo Correia & Ana Caetano, Portugal
What is left unsaid: Omissions in biographical narratives, Current Sociology, first published September 29, 2023
March 2025
Areej Sabbagh-Khoury, Israel
Settler Colonialism and the Archives of Apprehension, Current Sociology, first published June 22, 2022
February 2025
Sarah Demart, Belgium
Afro-Belgian activist resistances to research procedures: Reflections on epistemic extractivism and decolonial interventions in sociological research, Current Sociology, first published July 21, 2022
January 2025
Richard Parsons, Australia and Lara K. Mottee, Australia
Exploring equity in social impact assessment, Current Sociology, first published October 3, 2023
December 2024
Julien Larregue, Canada
Sentencing social psychology: Scientific deviance and the diffusion of statistical rules, Current Sociology, first published August 13, 2022
November 2024
Sylvia Esther Gyan, Ghana
‘Why give birth to many children when you cannot take care of them?’ Determinants of family size among dual-earner couples in Ghana, Current Sociology, first published May 3, 2022
October 2024
Ana Velitchkova, USA
Citizenship as a caste marker: How persons experience cross-national inequality, Current Sociology, first published July 15, 2021
September 2024
Aysegül Akdemir, Turkey
‘Put me on to a male agent’: Emotional labor and performing gender in call centers, Current Sociology, first published October 15, 2022
August 2024
Alexander Dunlap, Norway
Weaponizing people in environmental conflicts: Capturing ‘hearts’, ‘minds’, and manufacturing ‘volunteers’ for extractive development, Current Sociology, first published April 21, 2022
July 2024
Kristin Wiksell, Sweden
Friends against capitalism: Constructive resistance and friendship compliance in worker cooperatives, Current Sociology, first published June 4, 2022
June 2024
Lisa Baranik, Brandon Gorman and Natalie Wright, USA
Wasta and its relationship to employment status and income in the Arab Middle East, Current Sociology, first published July 15, 2021
May 2024
Lutfun Nahar Lata, Australia
The production of counter-space: Informal labour, social networks and the production of urban space in Dhaka, Current Sociology, first published February 23, 2022
April 2024
Sait Bayrakdar, UK and Andrew King, UK
LGBT discrimination, harassment and violence in Germany, Portugal and the UK: A quantitative comparative approach, Current Sociology, first published September 17, 2021
March 2024
Walid Habbas, Israel and Yael Berda Israel/USA
Colonial management as a social field: The Palestinian remaking of Israel’s system of spatial control, Current Sociology, first published June 22, 2021
February 2024
Artur Bogner, Germany and Gabriele Rosenthal, Germany
Social-constructivist and figurational biographical research, Current Sociology, first published November 15, 2022
January 2024
Leon Freude, Spain and Matthew Waites, UK
Analysing homophobia, xenophobia and sexual nationalisms in Africa: Comparing quantitative attitudes data to reveal societal differences, Current Sociology, first published February 23, 2022
December 2023
Hsin-Chieh Chang, China
Receptivity to different types of migrants in Taiwan: Civic behaviour and support for same-sex marriage as novel correlates, Current Sociology, first published September 17, 2021
November 2023
Yen Nee Wong, United Kingdom
LGBT+ ballroom dancers and their shoes: Fashioning the queer self into existence, Current Sociology, first published June 25, 2023
October 2023
Jung Cheol Shin, Republic of Korea
Localization of social science research in selected academic disciplines in South Korea, Current Sociology, first published October 19, 2021
September 2023
Uzair Ahmed, Norway
Reflections on racialisation’s impact on research: Insights from a study of Muslim radicalisation in Norway, Current Sociology, first published April 1, 2023
August 2023
Jieyu Liu, UK
Childhood in urban China: A three-generation portrait, Current Sociology, first published April 20, 202
July 2023
Ravindra N Mohabeer, Canada
A method to analyze invisibility: Navigating the dissonance between woke and safe, Current Sociology, first published May 28, 2021
June 2023
Zeynep Atalay, USA
The mutual constitution of illiberal civil society and neoauthoritarianism: Evidence from Turkey, Current Sociology, first published September 17, 2021
May 2023
Olivia Maury, Finland
Punctuated temporalities: Temporal borders in student-migrants’ everyday lives, Current Sociology, first published July 30, 2020
April 2023
Xiaorong Gu, United Kingdom
‘Save the children!’: Governing left-behind children through family in China’s Great Migration, Current Sociology, first published April 20, 2021
March 2023
Mangala Subramaniam, USA
Empathy in Research Process: Study of Women in Sex Work in India, Current Sociology, first published June 3, 2022
February 2023
Areej Sabbagh-Khoury, Israel
Settler Colonialism and the Archives of Apprehension, Current Sociology, first published June 22, 2022
January 2023
Kate Fitz-Gibbon, Australia
Guest co-editor of the Special Subsection "Re-imagining what counts as Femicide" published in Volume 71 Issue 1, January 2023 of Current Sociology
Floretta A Boonzaier, South Africa
Spectacularizing narratives on femicide in South Africa: A decolonial feminist analysis, Current Sociology, first published May 28, 2022
December 2022
Michaela Benson, United Kingdom
Hong Kongers and the coloniality of British citizenship from decolonisation to Brexit and the foundation of ‘Global Britain’, Current Sociology, first published October 15, 2021
November 2022
Mickey Vallee, Canada
Do we need a posthumanist sociology? Notes from the COVID-19 pandemic, Current Sociology, first published April 21, 2022
October 2022
Adrienne Lee Atterberry, USA, Derrace G. McCallum, Japan, and Yifei Lu, China
Interrogating parenting and intergenerational relationships within national and transnational contexts, Current Sociology, first published November 18, 2021
September 2022
Miro Griffiths, UK
Disabled Youth Participation within Activism and Social Movement Bases: An Empirical Investigation of the UK Disabled People’s Movement, Current Sociology, first published June 4, 2022
August 2022
Guðmundur Ævar Oddsson, Iceland
Class in Iceland, Current Sociology, first published May 19, 2021
July 2022
Nadim Mirshak, UK
The Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt: A Gramscian re-examination, Current Sociology, first published September 17, 2021
June 2022
Lim Sang Hun, South Korea
Look Up Rather Than Down: Karl Polanyi’s Fascism and Radical Right-Wing ‘Populism’, Current Sociology, first published May 20, 2021
May 2022
José Maurício Domingues, Brazil
From global risk to global threat: State capabilities and modernity in times of coronavirus, Current Sociology, 70:1, 6–23
April 2022
Janet Arnado, Philippines
Structured inequalities and authors’ positionalities in academic publishing: The case of Philippine international migration scholarship, Current Sociology, first published September 13, 2021
December 2021
Veronica L. Gregorio, Singapore
Isolation and Immunity within the Family: Commuter Marriages in Southeast Asia, Current Sociology, first published November 16, 2020
November 2021
Anat Herbst-Debby, Israel
Palestinian mothers in Israel: Can a welfare-to-work program enhance their social capital?, Current Sociology, first published June 7, 2020
October 2021
Ali Meghji, UK
Towards a theoretical synergy: Critical race theory and decolonial thought in Trumpamerica and Brexit Britain, Current Sociology, first published November 16, 2020
September 2021
Yoshie Yanagihara, Japan
The practice of surrogacy as a phenomenon of ‘bare life’: An analysis of the Japanese case applying Agamben’s theory, Current Sociology, 69( 2): 231–248
August 2021
Defne Över, USA
From self-censorship to contention: Shame triggered participation in the 2013 Gezi Protests, Current Sociology, first published May 20, 2021
July 2021
Guya Accornero, Portugal
Contentious buildings. The struggle against eviction in NYC’s Lower East Side, Current Sociology, first published May 19, 2021
June 2021
Hans Erik Næss, Norway
Sociology and the ethnography of human rights at mega-sport events, Current Sociology 68( 7): 972–989
May 2021
Kinneret Lahad, Israel, with Vanessa May, UK
Holding back and hidden family displays: Reflections on aunthood as a morally charged category, Current Sociology, first published March 07, 2021
April 2021
Marie Leth Meilvang, Denmark
From rain as risk to rain as resource: Professional and organizational changes in urban rainwater management, Current Sociology, first published February 11, 2021
March 2021
Ian Carrillo, USA
The racial fix and environmental state formation, Current Sociology, first published April 10, 2020
February 2021
Suhad Daher-Nashif, Qatar
Colonial management of death: To be or not to be dead in Palestine, Current Sociology, first published August 28, 2020
January 2021
Geoffrey Mead, Australia
Proper recognition: Personhood and symbolic capital in contemporary sociology, Current Sociology, first published June 27, 2020
November 2020
Man Xu, Canada
Constructing the refugee: Comparison between newspaper coverage of the Syrian refugee crisis in Canada and the UK, Current Sociology, first published August 18, 2020
October 2020
Myrna Dawson, Canada
Identifying femicide locally and globally: Understanding the utility and accessibility of sex/gender-related motives and indicators, Current Sociology, first published August 28, 2020 (co-authored with Michelle Carrigan)
September 2020
Robbie Shilliam, USA
Redeeming the ‘ordinary working class’, Current Sociology 68(2): 223–240
August 2020
Kathia Serrano Velarde, Germany
Informal learning in formal organizations: The case of volunteer learning in the hospital, Current Sociology 68(4): 572–591
July 2020
Kyohee Kim and Peer Smets, The Netherlands
Home experiences and homemaking practices of single Syrian refugees in an innovative housing project in Amsterdam, Current Sociology, first published online June 12, 2020
June 2020
Lorenza Antonucci, UK and Simone Varriale, UK
Unequal Europe, unequal Brexit: How intra-European inequalities shape the unfolding and framing of Brexit, Current Sociology 68(1): 41–59
May 2020
Ji Ruan, China
April 2020
Clara Ruvituso, Germany
From the South to the North: The circulation of Latin American dependency theories in the Federal Republic of Germany
Volume 68, Issue 1, 2019
March 2020
Eric Bonds, USA
Humanitized violence: Targeted killings and civilian deaths in the US war against the Islamic State
Volume 67, Issue 3, 2019
February 2020
Maria-Carolina Cambre, Canada
Visual criminology and the social image/s of crime
Volume 67, Issue 5, 2019
January 2020
Sari Hanafi, Lebanon
Global sociology revisited: Toward new directions
Volume 68, Issue 1, 2020
December 2019
Toru Takahashi, Japan
Governing and societal media for building resilience: A sociocybernetic study of the disaster recovery in Japan
Volume 67, Issue 4, 2019
November 2019
Julia Marti?nez-Arin?o, Netherlands
Conceptualising the role of cities in the governance of religious diversity in Europe
Volume 66, Issue 5, 2018
October 2019
Vélez-Vélez and Jacqueline Villarrubia-Mendoza, USA
Interpreting mobilization dynamics through art: A look at the DREAMers Movement
Volume 67, Issue 1, 2019
September 2019
Rodolfo Elbert, Argentina, and Pablo Pérez, Chile
The identity of class in latin America: Objective class position and subjective class identification in Argentina and Chile (2009)
Volume 66, Issue 5, 2018
August 2019
Janet McIntyre-Mills, Australia
Recognizing our hybridity and interconnectedness: Implications for social and environmental justice
Volume 66, Issue 6, 2018
July 2019
Sarab Abu-Rabia-Queder
The biopolitics of declassing Palestinian professional women in a settler-colonial context
Volume 67, Issue 1, 2019
June 2019
Diana Ibañez Tirado, UK
'We sit and wait’: Migration, mobility and temporality in Guliston, southern Tajikistan
Volume 67, Issue 2, 2019
May 2019
Lisa Suckert, Germany
Unravelling ambivalence: A field-theoretical approach to moralised markets
Volume 66, Issue 5, 2018
April 2019
Alberto Arribas Lozano , Ireland
Reframing the public sociology debate: Towards collaborative and decolonial praxis
Volume 66, Issue 1, 2018
March 2019
Ifeanyi Onwuzuruigbo, Nigeria
Indigenising Eurocentric sociology: The ‘captive mind’ and five decades of sociology in Nigeria
Volume 66, Issue 6, 2018
February 2019
Ito Peng, Canada
Culture, institution and diverse approaches to care and care work in East asia
Volume 66, Issue 4, 2018
January 2019
Helma Lutz, Germany
Care migration: The connectivity between care chains, care circulation and transnational social inequality
Volume 66, Issue 4, 2018
December 2018
Miho Iwata, USA, and Kumiko Nemoto, Japan
Co-constituting migrant strangers and foreigners: The case of Japan
Volume 66, Issue 2, 2018
November 2018
Adam Possamai , Australia
Popular and lived religions
Volume 63, Issue 6, 2015
Mastering the devil: A sociological analysis of the practice of a Catholic exorcist (with Giuseppe Giordan)
Volume 66, Issue 1, 2018
October 2018
Maria Törnqvist, Sweden
Rethinking intimacy: Semi-anonymous spaces and transitory attachments in Argentine tango dancing
Volume 66, Issue 3, 2016
September 2018
Annette M Hübschle, South Africa
The social economy of rhino poaching: Of economic freedom fighters, professional hunters and marginalized local people
Vol 65, Issue 3, 2017
August 2018
Meghan Tinsley, USA
Decolonizing the civic/ethnic binary
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July 2018
Evangelia Tastsoglou, Canada
Interrogating gender, violence, and the state in national and transnational contexts: Framing the issues (with Margaret Abraham)
Volume 64, Issue 4, 2016
Addressing domestic violence in Canada and the United States: The unesasy co-habitation of women and the state (with Margaret Abraham)
Volume 64, Issue 4, 2016
June 2018
Paola Rebughini, Italy
Critical agency and the future of critique
Volume 66, Issue 1, 2018
May 2018
Fran Collyer, Australia
Global patterns in the publishing of academic knowledge: Global North, Global South
Volume 66, Issue 1, 2018
April 2018
Michael Hviid Jacobsen, Denmark
Bauman's Metaphors: The Poetic Imagination in Sociology (with Sophia Marshman)
Volume 56, Issue 5, 2008
March 2018
Seng-Guan Yeoh, Philippines
The World Class City, the homeless and soup kitchens in Kuala Lumpur
Volume 65, Issue 4, 2017
February 2018
Svetlana Stephenson, UK
It takes two to tango: The state and organized crime in Russia
Volume 65, Issue 3, 2017
December 2017
Mimi Sheller, USA
From spatial turn to mobilities turn
Volume 65, Issue 4, 2017
The new mobilities paradigm for a live sociology
Volume 62, Issue 6, 2014
November 2017
Peter Millward, UK
World Cup 2022 and Qatar’s construction projects: Relational power in networks and relational responsibilities to migrant workers
Volume 65, Issue 5, 2017
October 2017
Martina Löw, Germany
Introduction: An invitation to spatial sociology (with Martin G Fuller)
Volume 65, Issue 4, 2017
Borders that relate: Conceptualizing boundaries in relational space (with Gunter Weidenhaus)
Volume 65, Issue 4, 2017
September 2017
Manuela Boatc?, Germany
Dynamics of inequalities in a global perspective: An introduction (with Vilna Bashi Treitler)
Volume 64, Issue 2, 2016
Unequal and gendered: Notes on the coloniality of citizenship (with Julia Roth)
Volume 64, Issue 2, 2016
August 2017
Celine-Marie Pascale, USA
Vernacular epistemologies of risk: The crisis in Fukushima
Volume 65, Issue 1, 2016
July 2017
Margaret Archer, UK
June 2017
Jim Beckford, UK
The Public, the Private, the Person: Elements of Ideologies of Privacy
Volume 30, Issue 2, 1982
Confidentiality and the Ethics of Social Research
Volume 30, Issue 2, 1982
May 2017
Susan McDaniel, Canada
Understanding health sociologically
Volume 61, Issue 5-6, 2013
Generationing relations in challenging times: Americans and Canadians in mid-life in the Great Recession (with Amber Gazso and Seonggee Um)
Volume 61, Issue 3, 2013
Currents of sociology: Tradition, renewal and challenge
Volume 60, Issue 6, 2012
April 2017
Dennis Smith, UK
Dialogue and discipline: Editing Current Sociology 2002–2010
Volume 60, Issue 6, 2012
Globalization, Degradation and the Dynamics of Humiliation
Volume 56, Issue 3, 2008
Editorial: Beyond Greed, Fear and Anger
Volume 56, Issue 3, 2008
March 2017
Muta Kazue, Japan
The ‘comfort women’ issue and the embedded culture of sexual violence in contemporary Japan
Volume 64, Issue 4, 2016
Febrary 2017
Sang-Jin Han, Korea
Emancipatory catastrophism from an East Asian perspective: Feedback from the dialogue organizer
Volume 63, Issue 1, 2015
January 2017
Vilna Bashi Treitler, USA
Dynamics of inequalities in a global perspective: An introduction (with Manuela Boatc?)
Volume 64, Issue 2, 2016
Racialization and its paradigms: From Ireland to North America
Volume 64, Issue 2, 2016
December 2016
Benjamín Tejerina, Spain
From indignation to occupation: A new wave of global mobilization (from the monograph he co-organized)
Volume 61, Issue 4, 2013
November 2016
Robert van Krieken, Australia
Childhood in Australian Sociology and Society
Volume 58, Issue 2, 2010
October 2016
Sari Hanafi, Lebanon
Complex entanglements: Moving from policy to public sociology in the Arab world
Volume 62, Issue 2, 2014
Explaining spacio-cide in the Palestinian territory: Colonization, separation, and state of exception
Volume 61, Issue 2, 2013
September 2016
Vincent Chua, Singapore
Contextualizing ‘networked individualism’: The interplay of social categories, role relationships and tasks
Volume 61, Issue 5-6, 2013
August 2016
Julia Evetts, UK
Professionalism: Value and ideology
Volume 61, Issue 5-6, 2013
A new professionalism? Challenges and opportunities
Volume 59, Issue 4, 2011
July 2016
Margaret Abraham, USA
Interrogating gender, violence, and the state in national and transnational contexts: Framing the issues (with Evangelia Tastsoglou)
Volume 64, Issue 4, 2016
Making a difference: Linking research and action in practice, pedagogy, and policy for social justice: Introduction (with Bandana Purkayastha)
Volume 60, Issue 2, 2012
Transforming place and belonging through action research, community practice, and public policy: Comparing responses to NIMBYism (with Gregory M Maney)
Volume 60, Issue 2, 2012
June 2016
Syed Farid Alatas, Singapore
The autonomous, the universal and the future of sociology
Syed Hussein Alatas, Volume 54, Issue 1, 2006
The Idea of Autonomous Sociology: Reflections on the State of the Discipline
Volume 54, Issue 1, 2006
From J?mi' ah to University: Multiculturalism and Christian–Muslim Dialogue
Volume 54, Issue 1, 2006
Academic Dependency and the Global Division of Labour in the Social Sciences
Volume 51, Issue 6, 2003
The Study of the Social Sciences in Developing Societies: towards an adequate conceptualization of relevance
Volume 49, Issue 2, 2001
May 2016
Monica Boyd, Canada
Feminizing Paid Work
Volume 45, Issue 2, 1997
April 2016
Vineeta Sinha, Singapore
Reinserting feminist perspectives in theorizing health domains
Volume 60, Issue 4, 2012
Problematizing Received Categories: Revisiting ‘Folk Hinduism’ and ‘Sanskritization’
Volume 54, Issue 1, 2006
Decentring Social Sciences in Practice Through Individual Acts and Choices
Volume 51, Issue 1, 2003
March 2016
Gurminder Bhambra, UK
Introduction: Knowledge production in global context: Power and coloniality
Volume 62, Issue 4, 2014
A sociological dilemma: Race, segregation and US sociology
Volume 62, Issue 4, 2014
February 2016
Markus Schulz, USA
Inequality, development, and the rising democracies of the Global South
Volume 63, Issue 2, 2015
Future moves: Forward-oriented studies of culture, society, and technology
Volume 63, Issue 2, 2015
Values and culture in the social shaping of the future (with Reimon Bachika)
Volume 59, Issue 2, 2011
Values and the conditions of global communication
Volume 59, Issue 2, 2011
The values of global futures
Volume 59, Issue 2, 2011
January 2016
Sveva Magaraggia, Italy
Tensions between fatherhood and the social construction of masculinity in Italy
Volume 61, Issue 1, 2012
November 2015
Hebe Vessuri, Venezuela
Global social science discourse: A Southern perspective on the world
Volume 63, Issue 2, 2015
Excellence or quality? Impact of the current competition regime on science and scientific publishing in Latin America and its implications for development (with Jean-Claude Guédon and Ana María Cetto)
Volume 62, Issue 5, 2014
Ethical Challenges for the Social Sciences on the Threshold of the 21st Century
Volume 50, Issue 1, 2002
October 2015
Jennifer Platt, UK
Making them count: How effective has official encouragement of quantitative methods been in British sociology?
Volume 60, Issue 5, 2012
“Case Study” in American Methodological Thought
Volume 40, Issue 1, 1992
September 2015
Betty Farrell, USA
Family change and the state of family sociology (with Alicia VandeVusse and Abigail Ocobock)
Volume 60, Issue 3, 2012
August 2015
Martyn Pickersgill, UK
The social life of the brain: Neuroscience in society
Volume 61, Issue 3, 2013
August 2015
Victor Roudometof, Cyprus
Transnationalism, Cosmopolitanism and Glocalization
Volume 53, Issue 1, 2005
July 2015
Ari Sitas, South Africa
Rethinking Africa’s sociological project
Volume 62, Issue 4, 2014